http://blownmortgage.disqus.com/Mortgage and finance with a sarcastic bentenSat, 10 Jan 2009 11:49:37 -0000http://blownmortgage.com/2008/10/28/the-stock-market-crash-ahead-of-us-or-behind-us/#comment-5044788<p>The Dow hit the bottom at $7500 on november 20th so you were quite right then. Hope it is now behind us.</p>stock imagesSat, 10 Jan 2009 11:49:37 -0000http://blownmortgage.com/2008/10/28/the-stock-market-crash-ahead-of-us-or-behind-us/#comment-3366396<p>discussions are for margins to be %10-40% depending on the counterparty and owning the collatoral. Even assuming netting of notionals down to 10% one ends up with $6.2trillion needing margins of say 20% against it or roughly $1.3trillion.</p>nick gogertyWed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:10 -0000